According to documents submitted to the Department of Natural Resources, development company MLG is planning an 858,000-square-foot distribution centre in Mount Pleasant that could employ 250 people once operational.

The project is expected to cost $55.7 million and is to act as a regional distribution centre for R.C. Distribution.

The 63-acre site would be situated south of Highway 20 along the Southeast Frontage Road of I-94.

According to the DNR documents, work on the project would start in June 2019 and be complete by September 2020. Planning for the project began in 2016, the documents say.